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Christopher Columbus statues across the state splattered with red paint
A Christopher Columbus statue in Trenton's Chambersburg neighborhood has become at least the fourth of the explorer's likeness to be vandalized in New Jersey this week. Lawmakers, officials and residents discussed the colonizer's place in American history on Columbus Day in October.
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Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'
"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention." This new report, titled Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, is meant to be that intervention: a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery — not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built.
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The rarely, if ever, told story of Japanese sold as slaves by Portuguese traders
The subject of this slim volume is “a series of events that are essential in understanding Japanese history” — events “totally unknown, incredible, and unpleasant to read.”
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What if ‘prejudice’ isn’t what causes racism?
An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of ‘racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slave-owning elite. By Blake Smith.
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The historian who admired slavers
Amy Murrell Taylor reviews Eugene D. Genovese's "The Sweetness of Life: Southern planters at home" edited by Douglas Ambrose.
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No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too
Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth. By David M. Perry.
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How American Racism Influenced Hitler
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism. By Alex Ross.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Interview With One of America’s Last Living Slaves
In 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.
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The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced
Zora Neale Hurston’s searing book about the final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, is being published nearly a century after it was written.
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Pope scolds FIFA for slave labor in Qatar
It’s widely known both that Pope Francis is an avid soccer fan, and that when it comes to social concerns, the fight against human trafficking is one of the priorities of his pontificate. Hence it’s no surprise that, with his green light, a papal foundation is getting involved in the fight against the use of modern-day slavery for building stadiums for soccer’s World Cup Qatar 2022, after NGOs found that hundreds of trafficking victims have already died building facilities that will host the tournament.
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Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
Varlam Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything from the Gulag except how to wheel a loaded barrow. But one of his fragmentary writings, dated 1961, tells us more.
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How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners
The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
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Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism
When the U.S. Civil War ended, Edward A. Pollard “of Virginia” immediately wrote a history of Confederate military operations—The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates—where he insisted that human slavery was immune from moral blame for the just concluded conflict...
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Report Finds Surprisingly High Rate of Slavery in Developed Countries
Yeonmi Park calls herself a former slave from North Korea. She had never seen a world map. She nearly starved. After she underwent appendix surgery without anesthesia at age 13, Ms. Park recalled, she saw human bodies piled outside the hospital, their eyes eaten by rats.
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How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management
By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook. By Caitlin C. Rosenthal.
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Prison labor is modern slavery. I've been sent to solitary for speaking out
I may be locked up in solitary confinement, but I stand with the men and women rejecting modern slavery in America
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The federal government markets prison labor to businesses as the “best-kept secret”
The Department of Justice says prison labor is good for a company’s bottom line. By Alexia Fernández Campbell.
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The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
The world of invention is famous for its patent disputes. But what happens when your dispute wasn’t with another inventor but whether the Patent Office saw you as a person at all? In 1864, a black man named Benjamin T. Montgomery tried to patent his new propeller for steamboats. The Patent Office said that he wasn’t allowed to patent his invention. All because he was enslaved.
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Slavery was never abolished – it affects millions, and you may be funding it
Slavery still exists and it happens in plain sight.
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The massacre men
When Shelton Laurel and the Appalachian war are mentioned at all, they are too often perceived as an exception, wiped off with a “war's hell” or blamed on the ways of those peculiar mountain folks. By David Forbes.
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